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Connecting Homeless Youth and Shelter Animals: 20-Year-Old Rachel Cohen, Hand2Paw

Have Fun - Do Good

"It's a novel idea that homeless youth have so much to offer, and that these youth could really make the difference at this shelter. Hand2Paw's mission is to connect homeless teens and shelter animals in a mutually beneficial way. Hand2Paw's mission is to connect homeless teens and shelter animals in a mutually beneficial way.

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22 Online Gift Stores That Benefit Nonprofits

Nonprofit Tech for Good

BFAS runs the largest no-kill animal sanctuary in the United States and works nationwide to create a time of No More Homeless Pets. The Getty Museum seeks to further knowledge of the visual arts and to nurture critical seeing by collecting, preserving, exhibiting and interpreting works of art of the highest quality.

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Art Brings People Together: Measuring the Power of Social Bridging

Museum 2.0

I eagerly read about a new social psychology research study in which whites, Asians, and Latinos engaged in a simple collaborative activity--making a music video together. When the music video was not focused on Mexican culture, no such change occurred. But each of these studies yields another useful nugget. Direct questioning.

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What Should You Say to Get People to Donate

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Help us reach our goal Provide a homeless person with a hot meal and a warm bed tonight Fund our budget Find more examples of good and bad Asks here. Using a prospect’s name is like music to their ears. In short, master the art and science of finding the right words to ask for money. Their name.

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49 Online Fundraising Ideas to Help You Raise More

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Student art show. Give your artistic students the opportunity to show off their skills by hosting a virtual art show. Create an online exhibition to showcase impressive art pieces your burgeoning young artists have created. Your school’s band, orchestra, and choir work hard to prepare music pieces every year.

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Nonprofits As Trusted Messangers During This Election Year

ASU Lodestar Center

Nonprofits fight poverty, provide great venues for art and music, challenge homelessness, help organize civic life, promote the common good and a host of other functions that puts human community and the common good before profits and a narrow band of investors.

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Nonprofit Fundraising and Advocacy

ASU Lodestar Center

Funding for domestic violence, homelessness, aging, child welfare, and mental health services have all been cut substantially. General funding for the arts has been entirely eliminated. Childcare alone has lost all its general funding for low-income families. For the most part, all these types of services are provided by nonprofits.